This is the culmination of the series of articles on players worth owning. To review, the thesis is that through streaming of freely available players, astute owners can take advantage of more at-bats and better matchups, surpassing the production of all but the most elite hitters in standard leagues. Unless you have a .300-hitting, 34-home [...]

Very cool write up, and one that I think deserves a lot more love, attention, and discussion than it is generating. I think we should discuss it here rather than in the feedback section for the article itself. I'm going to do all I can to convince4 my league to drop the moves limitations (max 4 moves per week plus $1 per move past 42 on the season--the extra money then goes into the winners pot and is divvied out accordingly) so that I can employ something like this next season. Spend the bulk of my money on 3 or 4 top 15 players, actively work the wire to find diamonds in the rough, and stream at least 2 to 3 positions on a daily/weekly basis.

The other thing I did want to mention is that I do think to do something like this, an owner would have to put in his due diligence. I'm thinking it would require at least 2 to 3 extra hours/week of work depending of course on how many leagues an owner is in. But I for one would be more than happy to put in that extra effort to try this new approach.

All the leagues I'm in have rules against streaming players (from what i understand, most people here do too), precisely to avoid people using this strategy. That's probably why it didn't get a big response. There are very few competitive leagues that this would work in for multiple reasons.

cool theory, but very unrealistic. Being able to carry that many players is just gonna be about impossible. Not to mention your utility discussion doesnt even explain how you start the players, or take into the fact that Brandon Moss’s no’s mostly came in the first week he was called back up, nobody would have thought to even grab him then

You don't have to carry any more players than normal. The nature of streaming is that you have one or two roster spots that are essentially revolving doors. Once you've used a player during his favorable matchup period, you drop him and pick up another player with favorable matchups upcoming. Just like when you stream pitchers, once the guy has pitched for you, you drop him and pick up someone else.

thatguy27 wrote:You don't have to carry any more players than normal. The nature of streaming is that you have one or two roster spots that are essentially revolving doors. Once you've used a player during his favorable matchup period, you drop him and pick up another player with favorable matchups upcoming. Just like when you stream pitchers, once the guy has pitched for you, you drop him and pick up someone else.

I assumed it was daily streaming playing Lefty-Righty matchups. I have been doing it for example with Scott Hairston and Adam Laroche for quite some time. Combined they got me 25 hrs 75 rbis and a 285ish ba.

thatguy27 wrote:You don't have to carry any more players than normal. The nature of streaming is that you have one or two roster spots that are essentially revolving doors. Once you've used a player during his favorable matchup period, you drop him and pick up another player with favorable matchups upcoming. Just like when you stream pitchers, once the guy has pitched for you, you drop him and pick up someone else.

I assumed it was daily streaming playing Lefty-Righty matchups. I have been doing it for example with Scott Hairston and Adam Laroche for quite some time. Combined they got me 25 hrs 75 rbis and a 285ish ba.